A BBC podcast that might be of interest. The results provided me with some potential insights into some of the behavior I've witnessed here at TMF. Of course the results of a few psychological studies may or may not be valid, but I hope the podcast [more]

Fellow METAR poster jaagu took exception with a previous post of mine in which I took the published numbers provided in a Reuters article, to which I provided a link, and in which I did the math and claimed the US trading partners in the rest of the [more]

Sun Feb 22

"Capitalism" may have no concept as TBTF, but we need look only at 1929; or perhaps the bank crisis of 1772 which led the world into depression; or the panic of 1836 in which bank failures led the economy into a decade of miasma; or the [more]

It's easy to rule economically if the rest of the developed world is knocked out of the competition. The only way to do that would be to create WWIII, and to make sure we are the only ones left standing again.

Poz, I am convinced that no matter what economic conditions might be, you would be able to write a tome detailing all of the failings and how they should be fixed. Your self appointed role is to always know better.